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Grupo SATA Virtual intends to be a cybernetic simulation of
Grupo SATA at the pilot level. Our pilots are flying real routes
in Microsoft Flight Simulator at their own computers, having at
the same time a place to learn and to interact with other
people.

Internet

Grupo SATA Virtual has its own website at www.satavirtual.org.
All @satavirtual.org emails are considered official from SATA
Virtual staff. Any other mean of communication is considered
official if includes our URL.

Virtual
Pilots

Pilots
The Virtual Pilots are those persons who have been approved
to join our roster after all necessary exams.

Pilots
Admission
The admission is made in two steps. From time to time a
Pilot Recruitment Board is open. After sucessful registration an automatic
email is sent to the candidate email address with details to access
Certification Centre admittance exams.
The admission process is described in
Pilot Recruitment

Captain
Admission
Captain admission is restricted to pilots already in the
roster and a) have at least 150 flight hours b) 100 as
flight time in his fleet. Captains moving from one fleet to
other are reduced to Pilot status until obtaining 20 flight
hours in the new fleet. The admission process is described
in
Pilot Recruitment.

Fleet
Pilots are submitted to one fleet from which they shall
receive the flight assignments. Any pilot having a type
rating for another fleet may fly in this fleet. Type ratings
are valid for a period no greater than 1 year. The Type
Rating procedure is described in
Pilot Recruitment.

Assignments
Flight Assignments are only suggestive and not a demand.
Each new flight assignment is issue from a period not less
than 8 days.

Reports
Flight Reports are mandatory in order to be included in the
logbook. The official and only method available is by FS
ACARS.

Requests
Several Requests are active. Inactivity is for pilots who
intend to be inactive for a period greater than 2 months.
Fleet change is a request to all those pilots willing to
change their active fleet, which from that moment will start
receiving the flight assignments bounded to that fleet after
a valid type rating has been completed.

Removal from
Roster
Any pilot without a single report within 2 months will be
considered suspended. Any suspended pilot will be removed
from the roster within 2 months.
Pilots with inactivity status will be removed after a period
of 4 months.

Staff

General Director
Direct responsibility for maintaining the airline.
Coordinates all operations and procedures.

Public Relations
Spokesman and relations with all external organizations.

Quality ControlSupervises all flight operations.
Detection and manager of abnormal and benefic situations.

Flight OperationsManages daily operations, briefing
and debriefing.

Chief PilotAdministrative link from the operational
level to the administration staff. Supervises each operational
staff.

Fleet Manager
Coordinates fleet procedures.

Operations

Coordination
/ OperationsIt?s a service where the pilots can get all kind of
informations without having to talk in the ATC frequency.Our frequency is 131.500. You may find us in that frequency
or most of the time in rw.avsim.net/SATA

How to operate - When starting one flight ask for a stack of
flights that already are in use, for case you don't want to
make one flight that already it is in air. You should
communicate the chocks time, takeoff, number on board and
estimate to destination. In case of delay you should
indicate the cause. In flight, near destination you should
contact again saying estimate to destination number on
board.Example:***** DEPARTURERZO128 - Coordination, Azores 128.SATA_FSS - 128, go ahead.RZO128 - Chocks at 28, takeoff 37, 144 on board, andPonta Delgada will be at 20:12. Delay for boarding.SATA_FSS - 28, takeoff 37, with 144. See you and goodflight.***** ARRIVALRZO128 - Coordination, Azores 128.SATA_FSS - 128, go ahead.RZO128 - Chocks at 12 of the next, 144 on board.SATA_FSS - To 12, your stand will be W3. See you andnice landing.RZO128 - W3, thank you.The pilot will have to communicate start engines time, and
in flight, already close to the destination, he will have to
inform the estimated hour to shutdown the engines. This is
called ' to give the chocks '. For example:'Coordination, Air Açores 128, to estimate chocks for the 20
'. Coordination can give information regarding stand that it
will go to park in the destination airport.

Other flights :
ICAO codes : SATXXXY
XXX is the flight number or the next regular/Charterflight number. Y may be one of the following:
P) positioning
T) training
F) ferry

Online Flights :Every time a pilot flies online, he must use the proper callsign. It is forbidden to use the pilot number as
callsign, or repetitive callsigns. A Fantasy Flight may be flown anywhere in the world regardless the fleet.

Alternate List:
To LPPD - LPLA or LPAZ if before 12:00 Local Time
To LPAZ - LPPD
To LPLA - LPPD or LPHR (the nearest to the next stop)
To LPGR - LPLA
To LPSJ - LPLA or LPHR (the nearest to the next stop)
To LPPI - LPLA or LPHR (the nearest to the next stop)
To LPHR - LPLA or LPPD (the nearest to the next stop)
To LPFL - LPLA or LPHR (the nearest to the next stop)
To LPCR - LPFL or LPHR (the nearest to the next stop)

Other flights :
ICAO codes - RZOXXXY
XXX is the flight number or the next regular/Charter flight number. Y may be one of the following:
P) positioning
K) training
F) cargo
T) test
E) presidential

Online Flights : every time a pilot flies online, he must use the proper callsign. It is forbidden to use the pilot
number as callsign, or repetitive callsigns. A Fantasy Flight may be flown anywhere in the world regardless the
fleet.

Alternate List :
To LPPD - LPLA or LPAZ if before 12:00
To LPMA - LPPS
To LPPT - LPFR
To LPFR - LPPT
To LPPR - LPPT
To all other - nearest airport with CAT II or above. In case of bad meteorological conditions, at least one alternate must have two crossed runways.

Real
Airline Support

Grupo SATA Virtual is authorized by Grupo SATA to use its logo
and name, since July 17th 1997. Both Grupo SATA logo and name
are registered marks of Grupo SATA. Grupo SATA Virtual also has
technical and logistic support from Grupo SATA.